Just hours before former President Bill Clinton was set to testify about his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Megyn Kelly aired a decades-old photograph she said reflected poorly on the former president’s behavior.
According to the New York Post, while speaking on “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the former Fox News anchor displayed a 1999 image taken at the Bombay Club in Washington, D.C., shortly after Clinton’s impeachment over the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Kelly told viewers the photo showed Clinton “looking down the chest” of one of her friends while posing for the picture.
“I’m not saying this is a crime,” she said, repeating the disclaimer while arguing that the moment illustrated that Clinton had not altered his conduct after the scandal.
“Bill was not shamed at all — after the Monica Lewinsky scandal — out of his hound dog behavior, to put it mildly,” Kelly said.
She identified the women in the image as her friends and described Clinton’s posture in the photo.
“Yes, he is looking down the chest of my friend, Meg Florence, and that’s my other friend in the foreground, Abby Rittman. He’s basically got his hand on her side boob,” Kelly alleged of the snap.
Kelly said the picture was taken in the restaurant while Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton were present, and she framed the moment as evidence the former president had not been “chastised” by the fallout from Lewinsky.
The image surfaced the day before Clinton’s scheduled closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Bill Clinton has acknowledged a friendship with Epstein in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but has not been accused of wrongdoing. He has said he was unaware of Epstein’s criminal conduct.
The former president has also denied visiting Epstein’s private Caribbean island, though he has acknowledged flying on Epstein’s plane multiple times and appearing in documents connected to the financier.
Kelly emphasized that her comments about the photo were not an allegation of criminal activity but presented them as a character critique ahead of Clinton’s testimony.
